BATTLE OF THE HEDGEROWS: GENERAL BRADLEY'S FIRST ARMY IN NORMANDY, JUNE-JULY 1944. A riveting account of war at its most basic level, where the US First Army suffered 40,000 casualties in a 7-mile advance in just 17 days!

BATTLE OF THE HEDGEROWS: BRADLEY'S FIRST ARMY IN NORMANDY, JUNE-JULY 1944. This account follows the vicious post-D-Day battles fought by the U.S. First Army amid the hedges, ditches and earthen walls of inland France. Although the Germans defenders were both outnumbered and outgunned, they had a crucial tactical advantage: fortified enclosures surrounded Hedgerows! Each field and overlooking hedgerow was turned into a defensive position for the Nazi's artillery, machineguns, and mortars. The fighting consisted of thousands of bloody field-by-field infantry battles.

Illustrated throughout with easy to read battle maps and over 100 archival photographs accompanied by firsthand accounts.
--An account of one of the bloodiest months in U.S. military history.
--First-hand accounts from veterans of both sides.
--Comprehensive U.S. and German Orders of Battle and casualty statistics.
--Color maps of the campaign in the Normandy hedgerows.
--Over 100 photographs of the Normandy fighting.